Bootstrapping LDC build

David Nadlinger via digitalmars-d-ldc digitalmars-d-ldc at puremagic.com
Wed Aug 17 01:43:13 PDT 2016


On 17 Aug 2016, at 8:24, Russel Winder via digitalmars-d-ldc wrote:
> I am guessing that there must be a tagged release that requires only a
> C++ compiler. I can check this out, and build without a D compiler.
> Then I can checkout the latest official release compile that with the
> bootstrap and then compile it again with itself.

This would be the 0.17.x release series, resp. the "ltsmaster" branch. 
It contains the last C++-only compiler, and is still maintained as far 
as showstoppers for bootstrapping are concerned.

> If this is the case
> then the wiki page at 
>  http://wiki.dlang.org/Building_LDC_from_source p
> ossibly needs an update: it assumes you have a suitable D compiler 
> pre-
> installed and whilst Debian does, Fedora does not.

It stated that 0.17 was the last C++ version, but Johan just made that 
more explicit, I think.

  — David



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